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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1913
Page
2
Ray P. Spear argues rural education should center on practical agriculture. The country school can use corn and farm topics for arithmetic and reading, with students conducting germination tests and livestock rations, while boosting community social life through fairs and events.
London runs a school of elocution for birds. Trained parrots teach others by placing birds near pupils, using whistles and musical instruments, and notably the telephone to relay sounds, keeping the feathered pupil attentive.
Bennie asks about the men with bushy hair in a geography book. Ben explains they are Australian aborigines and wear little clothing. The little brother wonders what they hang up on Christmas.
Antiquarian estimates place the Kenwick Druidical circle at forty eight stones while other scholars offer varying totals. A popular guess is thirty eight as locals claim fairies guard the megaliths making an exact census impossible.
Quotation about a French schoolboy misrendering Shakespeare and a German phrase, contrasting spirit and flesh. The Youth's Companion notes the humor in translating to “The ghost, of course, is ready, but the meat is feeble.”
A visitor teases Bobby about stepping into his father’s shoes. Bobby laments growing into his father’s wear, recalling how he has worn out everything else his father wore since his mother learned to tailor for him.
The child asks what a stepbrother is and the six year old answers with a humorous misdefinition about sitting on the front step, capturing a light domestic moment with playful wordplay.
A Washington Star tip advises proper linen care and closet habits. Air and dry sheets towels and clothes after laundry, iron and spread them on a rack or window when weather allows, and keep the linen closet door open periodically to aid ventilation.
Instructions describe orange sweet with brandy or sherry and macaroons topped with whipped cream. Albemarle Squares outline square cake with preserved fruit and whipped cream layers. Banana Delight folds sugar lemon juice gelatine into mashed banana, folded into whipped cream and served chilled.
A traditional Irish stew method uses pork scraps layered with potatoes and onions in a kettle. Fry fat pork, layer potato and onion with salt and pepper, add water, top with Boston crackers, then mix milk flour and butter and simmer until crackers soften.
Instructions describe removing bones from fish while raw. Start with the head in the left hand and split the back, then use the right thumb to loosen meat from the backbone. Push between backbone and skin from head to tail and pull to separate ribs. Remove remaining bones with knife blade. Salt fish should be freshened before boning.
Six apples cored peeled and halved stew with butter powdered sugar and a splash of water until tender. Fry two or three bread slices to a delicate brown then top with sugar and the hot stewed apples. Serve immediately.
Wash and boil carrots until tender then mash. Season with salt pepper mace and butter with two raw egg yolks per teacupful. Chill, shape into croquettes, dip in beaten egg coat with bread crumbs and fry in hot fat.
Mackintosh coats that have turned hard can be restored by lime and water. Dissolve a handful of gray lime in half a bucket of water and apply with a sponge, repeating after three hours to revive the fabric.
The note lists ingredients for a cold water cake including sugar flour and eggs with two teaspoons of baking powder and water. It mentions vanilla and indicates a garbled ending. The fragment lacks clear author or context to place a date or source.
Professor W R Gardner of Oregon Agricultural College argues loganberry is a top business bet for small Northwest fruit growers. He notes potential income of 320 to 400 dollars per acre at typical yields, with costs for picking around 20 dollars a ton. Canneries offer about four cents per pound for fresh fruit, matching raspberry and strawberry prices, due to broader market potential through canning and drying.
Winter butter requires thorough airing and drying of utensils and careful control of cream ripening. Keep cream cool, stir when adding new cream, churn at least twice weekly, and maintain about 65 degrees to avoid curdled flavor. proper conditions yield quicker, smoother churning and better keeping butter.
The fifth year of the Oregon Countryman from Oregon Agricultural College in Corvallis ends with a June issue featuring 13 articles on farm and home life and 11 illustrations. Notables include W. R. Siler on The Evergreen Blackberry and A. B. Lunn on marketing farm eggs, plus pieces on dairy, poultry, and bread making.
The piece contrasts a highly refined morality and idealism with the broader, looser but vital ethics guiding men. It discusses women's role in social culture and the balance between exacting standards and pragmatic social influence.
The article notes Carson plans marriage soon and aims to befriend many people to receive gifts and congratulations. The celebratory move increases social activity and widespread posting of good wishes.
A Wisconsin dairyman urged recognizing the cow as the industry’s foundation the motherhood of the animal. He noted personal rapport with cows increases milk yield and contrasted gentle handling with harsh tactics, arguing kindness and patient training win cows to accept milking and stable life, reducing breaking a heifer to milk.
Prof. H. F. Wilson of the Oregon Agricultural College warns that four bud weevils threaten young fruit trees. They injure foliage and buds, especially on young prune scions, and spraying with arsenate of lead is impractical. He suggests shaking trees in cool conditions and applying sticky substances around trunks to trap the weevils, using products like Tanglefoot.
The Farm and Home expert advises pruning roses in spring, not fall, to encourage strong new growth. Cut back one-half to two-thirds of last season’s growth, remove all weak and dead canes, and keep the plant within about one foot of the ground to promote quality blooms from young wood. Long growth can be thinned in fall.
A poem praise line extols the unseen labor of a farmer who feeds hens, contrasting grand heroes with the daily worth of the man who tends poultry. Josephine Page Wright appears in Farm and Home.
A humorous quip from Farm and Home recalls a young seed trader who, in a bet, swallowed six seed packets. He ends up covered with grass and unable to sit, a comic image of seed rashness and impracticality. Public domain wit from Charles Dobbs.
A playful exchange shows Flaherty and Fogarty discussing their lively baby and a failed photo session. After an hour of effort the photographer sent them to a movie picture studio, as noted by Lippincott's reference.
A concise reflection quotes Helen Keller on the meaning of effort and beauty. It asserts that every effort toward attaining something beautiful is never lost and that discovery will come sometime, somewhere, somehow.
Supreme Court Justice Gavegan hears the divorce case of civil engineer David Lockwood against Mary A. Lockwood. Mrs. Lockwood admits kissing the co respondent Morton Arvis on first meeting and repeatedly afterward but says she saw no harm. Testimony from sisters Maud Plumstead and Evelyn Maybee suggests Arvis treated all three women equally. The judge signed a decree granting custody of the couple’s young child to Lockwood.
The piece recounts romantic plots where wealth hides behind marriages and heiresses surprise suitors. Examples include Miss Benson and Montague Flagg discovering seven figures after vows, and a Milwaukee widow testing a gold-digger with a six month plan before revealing her fortune. A gardener's son Croesus tale and a Nevada departure close the anecdotes.
A Galena area veterinary surgeon owns a cow with a wooden leg after a near amputation. A hinged hoof leg was attached, enabling the animal to move well enough and remain valuable. The doctor believes artificial limbs could save other injured livestock.
The article recalls repeated disturbances of Edward I's Westminster Abbey tomb. Wax ritual renewals occurred every two years, tied to a dying command about Scotland and the Holy Land. After Richard II’s fall the practice waned until the Antiquaries reopened the tomb in the late eighteenth century and sealed it with pitch.
The Observer clarifies confusion over Townasville Townsville names and asserts the origin of the town name from Captain Towns the pioneer settler rather than an obvious redundance. The piece notes Northern Queens land as the region and emphasizes the naming by local history.
The London Chronicle notes many letters correcting a phase about sedan chairs. It warns that stretcher bearers must break step to avoid swinging the patient. It explains marching in step over bridges risks breaking them and the band stops when regiments cross.
A fragment notes that Grace spends a large sum of money and contrasts it with not being a saving grace. The text is unclear about context, names, or events.
In Indianapolis a well-dressed woman sought Mayor Shank with a sales pitch. His private secretary Annis Burk said the mayor was out on private business, and she offered ten cent toilet soap, which Burk purchased.
A wanderer sees wire screens in a shop window described as baby face protection for Italian Sunday outings. The shopkeeper says carriages shower candy pelliets during galas, risking eye injuries to infants, prompting mothers to screen babies until candy is discarded.
The director of public works Mr. Cooke plans to appoint women as street cleaning inspectors, not to advance suffrage but to boost efficiency. He cites a prior example of a private inspector, a young woman, who worked without city pay from private funds, covering all public contracting sites in Philadelphia.
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